39
Quality Score
Emerging
Boingo Wi-Finder
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Boingo Wi-Finder is an Android app from Boingo Wireless, Inc. in the Tools category, currently rated 2.0★ across 6,833 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 39: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Tools app, that means early traction worth watching. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Revenue · today and ahead
Today
$860/mo
In 12 months
$752 – $2712
In 24 months
$697 – $6273
INDIE tier
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
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since first record
🍎Also on iOS
—/mo · 1K ratings · 4.3★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$70K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $50K – $95K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| ⚙Tools complexity ×0.90 | $-5049 |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$24K |
Total estimate$70K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $5K – $15K · 11× MRR multiple
💸~0.1× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| ⭐★ rating < 3.5 (weak) | -18% |
| 🏷Tools category multiple | -8% |
Final multiple11× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.2M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
275K
Daily active
49K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲Tools engagement | ~190 installs / rating |
| 🔁Tools D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.18 |
DAU / MAU18% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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Native Android (Kotlin)
High confidence · 80%
Also possible
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 🏷Category context | Tools |
| 📦Compact Android bundle | → Native Kotlin |
💀 Maintenance status
At risk
50%
Last shipped 2025-11-07 · 197 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅6 months since last update | Concerning gap |
VerdictAt risk
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$860/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$733 – $1.7K
12 months
$752 – $2.7K
24 months
$697 – $6.3K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
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BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 35/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
2.9
Product Quality
3.7
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.5
Operational Safety
7.0
Founder Strength
4.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $344 - $2151/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 2.03★ across 6,833 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: last update 197d ago — slow cadence.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $15K-$27K.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 3 of 3 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Low install base (6,833 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Below-average rating (2.0★)METRIC | −$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
App Specs
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📝 About this app
Now it’s easier than ever to locate any of our 1 million Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide with Boingo Wi-Finder!
***** Six time Global Traveler Award Winner: Best Wi-Fi Service
***** Named “Best Wi-Fi Network Operator” by WBA
***** Travel & Leisure Top 10 Travel Apps
With Boingo Wi-Finder, you get:
★ Hotspot Notifications: Wi-Finder actively finds and notifies you when you are at a Boingo hotspot.
★ Hotspot Location Maps: Whether you're traveling around the corner or around the world, it's good to know where to stay connected to Wi-Fi. Just open the search menu to find hotspots.… View full description on the official store →
***** Six time Global Traveler Award Winner: Best Wi-Fi Service
***** Named “Best Wi-Fi Network Operator” by WBA
***** Travel & Leisure Top 10 Travel Apps
With Boingo Wi-Finder, you get:
★ Hotspot Notifications: Wi-Finder actively finds and notifies you when you are at a Boingo hotspot.
★ Hotspot Location Maps: Whether you're traveling around the corner or around the world, it's good to know where to stay connected to Wi-Fi. Just open the search menu to find hotspots.… View full description on the official store →
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Tech & Domain Intel — boingo.com
- Tech stack
- AWS SES · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · Google Workspace
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Boingo Wi-Finder
- Developer
- Boingo Wireless, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.boingo.boingowifi
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Tools
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.boingo.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $861/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
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Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Boingo Wi-Finder: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Boingo Wi-Finder make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Boingo Wi-Finder earns approximately $860/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is Boingo Wi-Finder profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $70K and monthly revenue $860, Boingo Wi-Finder looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Boingo Wi-Finder have?▾
Estimated audience: ~1.2M lifetime downloads, ~275K monthly active users, and ~49K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Boingo Wi-Finder?▾
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What is Boingo Wi-Finder built with?▾
Our heuristic places Boingo Wi-Finder on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (High confidence, 80%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Boingo Wi-Finder still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: At risk (50% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 6 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Boingo Wi-Finder sell for?▾
Estimated acquisition value: $10K (marketplace range $5K – $15K). Calculated as 11× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was Boingo Wi-Finder last updated?▾
Boingo Wi-Finder last shipped a new version on 2025-11-07 — 6 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Boingo Wi-Finder?▾
Boingo Wi-Finder is published by Boingo Wireless, Inc. on the Google Play Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Boingo Wi-Finder's BU Score?▾
Boingo Wi-Finder has a BU Score of 39/100 (Emerging). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.